Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 35
But before it falls, a Lamia comes to his aid and kills his sister.
Who acts: asunder, Lamia · What happens: fall, come, kill · To what, where: aid, sister
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (asunder, Lamia), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 comes | cc |
| 2 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 4 falls | mark |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 falls | nsubj |
| 4 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 comes | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 falls | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 Lamia | det |
| 7 | Lamia | lamia | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 comes | nsubj |
| 8 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 aid | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 aid | nmod:poss |
| 11 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 comes | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 kills | cc |
| 13 | kills | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 comes | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 sister | nmod:poss |
| 15 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 kills | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | present | asunder | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | present | a Lamia | Lamia's aid | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to aid=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | kill | present | a Lamia not said here | Lamia's sister | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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